About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Switzer is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings eight years of clinical practice to her work and a longer history in mental health roles such as case management, shelter services, and crisis response. Her background includes time in group homes, managing a homeless shelter, and work with correctional facilities.
Those roles shaped how she understands stress, trauma, and complicated life circumstances. She uses that experience to advocate for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck.
Background and approach
In sessions she keeps things practical and direct. She focuses on short-term goals and steps that are doable. Jacqueline weaves in trauma-informed care, psychoeducation, and mindfulness to help people build coping skills and notice patterns that keep them struggling.
She commonly helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, bipolar mood challenges, grief, and effects of past abuse. She also supports concerns related to chronic illness, end-of-life issues, isolation, codependency, and recovery from domestic violence or disaster-related stress. Jacqueline describes her style as solution-focused with attention to safety and usable tools.
She aims to create a clear plan and to teach strategies clients can use between sessions. Her work is grounded in real-world experience that informs practical problem solving. People who want straightforward guidance and skills to manage mood, grief, or trauma often find her approach helpful.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Jacqueline uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and trauma awareness. One common approach she applies is solution-focused work, which narrows in on clear, short-term goals and small steps clients can try between sessions to see quick improvements. Another key element is trauma-informed care, which means she pays attention to past harm and safety while helping people build coping strategies and rebuild trust in their own resilience.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, preferences, and life demands with each person and adapt methods over time. Together they decide what feels doable and what fits the client’s needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase convenience. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain continuity when travel or work schedules change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English